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CVE-2019-15903 Detail

Description

In libexpat before 2.2.8, crafted XML input could fool the parser into changing from DTD parsing to document parsing too early; a consecutive call to XML_GetCurrentLineNumber (or XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber) then resulted in a heap-based buffer over-read.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00080.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00081.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00000.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00002.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00003.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00013.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00016.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00017.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00018.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00019.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00008.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00040.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154503/Slackware-Security-Advisory-expat-Updates.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154927/Slackware-Security-Advisory-python-Updates.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154947/Slackware-Security-Advisory-mozilla-firefox-Updates.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/23 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/27 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/30 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3210 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3237 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3756 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/commit/c20b758c332d9a13afbbb276d30db1d183a85d43 CVE, MITRE Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/317 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/342 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/318 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00006.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00017.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A4TZKPJFTURRLXIGLB34WVKQ5HGY6JJA/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BDUTI5TVQWIGGQXPEVI4T2ENHFSBMIBP/ CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S26LGXXQ7YF2BP3RGOWELBFKM6BHF6UG/ CVE, MITRE
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/17 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/21 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/23 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/1 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/24 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Oct/29 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/30 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/37 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-08 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190926-0004/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210785 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210788 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210789 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210790 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210793 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210794 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210795 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4132-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4132-2/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4165-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4202-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4335-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4530 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4549 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4571 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-11 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-15903
NVD Published Date:
09/04/2019
NVD Last Modified:
05/30/2025
Source:
MITRE